Since changing your theme makes everything come back to normal, then, basically, it means the problem is from the theme you wish to use. It looks like the theme is missing templates that should show up upon returning ‘no results’ for your query, or, there are errors in the template(s) supposed to display. This scenario … Read more
the_time does not display the current date, it displays the date of the current post, and 404 pages do not have a current post. For this reason, if it ever returned a date on the 404 page then it would be a bug. Instead you should use the PHP functions that come with PHP to … Read more
it was the “topic” name field. It seems you can’t use reserved terms in $_POST, and “topic” is a post type name, so its probably one of them…
There’s not much info available by following your link. I suggest the basic troubleshooting steps: Disable all plug-in’s and test the links Switch to Twenty-Ten or Twenty-Eleven theme If it’ still not working, make sure you have the default .htaccess and nothing more. Here is what it should look like (I had to link to … Read more
The AJAX request would query for the dates it requires to display. With Lazy fetching set, if you switch from month to week or day views it won’t bother making another request, since it doesn’t need to. This is outlined in the fullcalendar documentation. As for using this method, see this question on how to … Read more
You named the custom post type ‘custom_about_post’ not ‘about’. Rename the archive template to archive-custom_about_post.php or better: rename the post type. As a rule of thumb: Avoid underscores in post type names. There are/were some issues, especially with templates. And why do you need a custom post type just for about pages? What’s your goal?
It stopped to work with WP 3.4 because there was fixes to handle_404(), and You are using wrong way on homepage… instead of creating new query, modify main query. Changeset: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/19892 Sample code: function my_query_for_homepage( $query ) { if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() ) { $query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘post’, ‘gaming’, ‘entertainment’, ‘tech’, ‘breakroom’, ‘podcasts’, ‘off-grid’ ) … Read more
You should be using a filter outside of your template for this: add_filter( ‘template_include’, ‘wpa62226_template_include’, 1, 1 ); function wpa62226_template_include( $template ){ if( is_page( ‘some-page’ ) ) : global $wp_query; $wp_query->set_404(); status_header( 404 ); $template = locate_template( ‘404.php’ ); endif; return $template; } Your code is executed before the template is loaded, so it becomes … Read more
Without testing, I’ll guess this has nothing to do with the author names specifically, but the fact that author is a built in WordPress query var, and /author/author-name/ is the default permalink for author archives. Change your post type name so the query var no longer clashes, then either change your post type rewrite slug, … Read more
You should definitely avoid the public WordPress query vars: attachment attachment_id author author_name cat category_name comments_popup day error feed hour hour m minute monthnum name p page_id paged pagename post_parent post_type preview second static subpost subpost_id tag tag_id tb w year There’s also this list of reserved terms, inexplicably located on the register_taxonomy page, with … Read more